A wideband ADI-FDTD algorithm for the design of double negative metamaterial-based waveguides and antenna substrates

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1329-1332

  Kantartzis, Nikolaos V ^a   Sounas, Dimitrios L ^a   Antonopoulos, Christos S ^a   Tsiboukis, Theodoros D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

ADI FDTD method; Antennas; Double negative (DNG) media; Metamaterials; Split ring resonators; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVEGUIDES;

LATTICE DEFICIENCIES; LORENTZ DRUDE MODELS; METAMATERIALS; SPLI RING RESONATORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33947637209     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.891007     Document Type: Article

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